The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-14
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers Say Of All Sorts Of
PeopIe-Personal Paragraphs.

What the Newspapers Say Of All Sorts Of
People-Personai Paragraphs.
Miss Surplus is the name of the treas
urer of temperance club in Boston.
Mr.. Gladstone has agreed to drive the
first pile of a bridge across the Dee.
The Persian who started to walk from
Teheran to Paris has arrived in Moscow.
Alphonse Daudet has suffered for ten
years from sleeplessness and is greatly
Frustrated.
1t is rumored that Prince Ferdinand,
before going to Bulgaria, insured his life
for 1000, 900 forms.
Queen Victoria is said to be contem-
plating the publication of novel which
she wrote many years ago.
Lord Doneraile was not the first British
peer to die of hydrophobia. The Duke of
Richmond also died of the same disease.
Gen. Albert Pike is very fond of birds
and has in his study dozens of them in
cages; knocking birds, canaries, robins,
bluebirds and others.
The empress of Japan, who is thinking
of visiting this country in October, will
travel incognito, and her suite will in
clude two of the imperial princes.
Gen. Imboden, of Confederate cavalry
fame, recently stated, in a letter, that if
Virginia. mineral wealth had been as
fully developed in 1860 as now there
would have been no war.
MILFORD Woodruff, the new head of
the Mormon church, is so years of age,
and has always been a man of mediocre
ability. He has been in hiding two
years, and is still out of sight to all save
the faithful.
On suggestion of the late Henry
Ward Beecher ex-senator Bruce, the
colored orator of Mississippi, entered the
lecture field one year ago, and so con-
genial did he find the work that he has
been lecturing ever since. His success
has been all that he and his friends could
have desired.
The Duchess of Cleveland has set the
fashion of riding in the Row with para
sol. OF course, this requires perfectly
trained horse. The Empress of Austria
never went out hunting without her fan,
the only thing that seemed strange to
English eyes in very perfect costume
and '.get up
A son of Gen. Belknap some years ago
wanted to secure a clerkship in one of
the departments at Washington, but his
father dissuaded him and advised him to
undertake any other employment that
was honorable. The young man secured
a job as railroad brakeman and stuck to
it, Now he is assistant superintendent
of the road.
The ameer of Afghanistan is not de-
sirable patient, if story in an Indian
journal may be trusted. Lately he was
very i'll with a boil on the back of his
neck, and his doctor prescribed some
lotion to bring the boil to head. Natu-
rally the pain was temporarily increased,
and Abdurrahman was so enraged with
his doctor that he sent for him the first
thing in the morning and had him be-
headed ON the spot.
Mr.. Whistler is sketching the pictur-
esque retreats of poverty to complete his
series of pictures of London life intended
for exhibition in America. Artists, like
authors, make their notes from all
phases of life. From the purlieus of
Cloth Fair to the gorgeousness of a naval
review before the queen is but step.
He was one of the guests aboard the
Victoria, and made rapid sketches Of the
fleet in water colors.
An American girl. daughter of Ogden
Bradley, of New York, and niece of
Bishop Nelly, of Maine, has won a
diploma from the famous Paris School of
Medicine, passing a brilliant examina-
ton and receiving the maximum mark.
IL IT
hour and half she was shrewdly and
ably questioned by four of the leading
professors Of the school, each of whom
had been provided with copy of the
thesis. In the black gown and white
fichu, prescribed for candidates, she re-
minded the audience of Portia in the
trial scene of the Merchant of Venice"
DIR. Mary Taylor Bissell, sister of the
president of Vassar, who is in charge of
the girls gymnasium in New York city,
is interested in the project of college of
physical training for girls. Whenever
this college is ready to receive pupils
they will be measured on entering, and
an average gain of Ia inches about the
chest, inches about the waist, La
inches about the arm and 1 inch about
the forearm is what is looked forward to
rs the desirable result of the first years
bodily training and exercise of the typical
slim girl at II.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spends the
greater part of the year at Oak Glen, her
country home, five miles out of Newport.
Oak Glen owes its name to the cluster of
oak trees which makes the slope behind
the house cool and shady in the hot sum-
A Effln bro,
ing through their midst, and an old gray
ruin of a stone mill stands ON the farther
side of the stream. Under these trees
Mrs. Howe passes many hours with her
books or writing beside her, and here she
reads in the great book of nature and
hears the wise talk of the singing birds,
with which the green branches are alive.
These hours are the happiest in her busy